Inscription: Signed and inscribed (verso, in graphite): En volant sur Reims"/ Etude/ GSeverini/ 2
the artist (1915–17; shipped in October 1916 to New York, valued at Fr 150; left on June 22, 1917 with Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (1917–d, 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
Galerie Boutet de Monvel, Paris. "Gino Severini: Première exposition futuriste d'art plastique de la guerre et d'autres oeuvres antérieures," January 15–February 1, 1916, no. 27.
New York. 291. "Paintings, Drawings, Pastels by Gino Severini," March 6–17, 1917, no catalogue (checklist no. 16; the artist's handwritten list as drawing no. 2).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Twentieth Century Italian Art," June 28–September 18, 1949, unnumbered cat. (p. 134).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "From the Alfred Stieglitz Collection: An Extended Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 22–August 12, 1951, no catalogue (checklist no. E.L.51.703; loan extended to March 20, 1961).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Futurism," May 31–September 5, 1961, no. 119.
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Futurism," October 18–December 19, 1961, no. 119.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Futurism," January 14–February 19, 1962, no. 119.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection," September 9–November 12, 1967, no catalogue (unnumbered checklist).
Venice. Palazzo Grassi. "Futurismo e Futurismi," May 4–October 12, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 234).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni: The Lydia Winston Malbin Bequest," June 15, 1990–January 15, 1991, no catalogue.
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Severini futurista, 1912–1917," October 18, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 25.
Fort Worth. Kimbell Art Museum. "Severini futurista, 1912–1917," February 11–April 7, 1996, no. 25.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 39.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "World War I and the Visual Arts," July 31, 2017–January 7, 2018 (MMA Bulletin, Fall 2017, fig. 18).
Marianne W. Martin. Futurist Art and Theory, 1909–1915. Oxford, 1968, p. 198 n. 4.
George Heard Hamilton. "The Alfred Stieglitz Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), p. 382.
Joan M. Lukach. "Severini's 1917 Exhibition at Stieglitz's '291'." Burlington Magazine (April 1971), pp. 200, 205 nn. 65, 66.
Donald E. Gordon. Modern Art Exhibitions, 1900–1916: Selected Catalogue Documentation. Vol. 2, Munich, 1974, p. 886.
Joan M. Lucach [sic]. "Severini's Writings and Paintings, 1916-1917, and His Exhibition in New Jork [sic] City." Critica d'arte (November-December 1974), pp. 60, 66, 76 n. 1, p. 79 nn. 21, 22, fig 1.
Marianne W. Martin. "Carissimo Marinetti: Letters from Severini to the Futurist Chief." Art Journal 41 (Winter 1981), pp. 310–11.
Daniela Fonti. Gino Severini: Catalogo ragionato. Milan, 1988, p. 199, no. 238, ill.
Marjorie Shelley inAmerican Pastels in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, p. 42.
Ester Coen. Illuminazioni. Avanguardie a confronto: Italia, Germania, Russia. Exh. cat., Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Milan, 2009, pp. 401, 404, 509, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 71, 73–74, 252–53, no. 39, ill. (color).
Jennifer Farrell. "World War I and the Visual Arts." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 75 (Fall 2017), p. 17, fig. 18 (color).
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